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The first Michael Nyman Band Album originally released in 1981. Includes first recording of In Re Don Giovanni Beautifully packaged in a 6 panel digipack and including two limited edition posters of the the original UK and Japanese LP artwork. Critically acclaimed as Nyman’s groundbreaking record that combined minimalist, experimentalist music and jazz improvisation for the first time, this album has only ever been available on the rarest of long-since deleted vinyl. Most of the music on Michael Nyman was material from the early films by Peter Greenaway such as “Bird Anthem” (Act Of God) and “Bird List Song” (The Falls). The album also includes his first concert work for the band, “In Re Don Giovanni” which was released as a single on Les Disques du Crepuscule (home of Cabaret Voltaire, Durutti Column and Josef K amongst others) under the title Mozart. The most groundbreaking track on Michael Nyman, however, is “Waltz in F”, a piece Nyman wrote for art students whilst teaching at Trent Polytechnic in 1977, Nyman subsequently commandeering two modern jazz improvisers, Evan Parker and Peter Brotzman, to “destroy” this piece. Ultimately, Parker and Brotzman ended up playing over and around ten separate tracks whilst Nyman and Cunningham mixed in their Waltz. “Nyman's album bears all the hallmarks of his distinctive early style. Powerful, propulsive rhythms on bass guitar, strings and keyboards are held in check by bold-as-brass harmonic patterns, repeated in ever-increasing cycles...It's a wonderful combination of chaos and control, aided by the edgy, raw nature of the performances” Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 “The serio-comic tone helps sustain the music's appeal, compared to the joylessness of much American minimalism: this is music full of affirmative bustle, aware of its lurking pomposity, and not afraid to embrace the free-jazz squawks of Evan Parker and Peter Brötzmann on "Waltz".” The Independent, 13th January 2012 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Michael Nyman in ConcertLive Recording from The Studio Halle, Germany, 2009
Many people associate the name Michael Nyman primarily with the soundtrack for Jane Campion’s film “The Piano”, but that fails to do justice to this highly successful British artist. The extensive oeuvre produced by composer, conductor and pianist Nyman includes not only fi lm music but also opera, songs, ballet music and orchestral works and displays an impressive musical diversity. Anyone wishing to gain an impression of this versatility would have had an opportunity to experience the Michael Nyman Band in top form at this performance. The concert offers an exciting sample of Nyman’s past work and also presents the German premiere of The Musicologist Scores, marking the climax of an engagement with the music of Georg Friedrich Handel that began in the 1960s. Using an unusual combination of saxophone, flute, brass, piano, string quartet and bass guitar, The Michael Nyman Band is the composer’s preferred ensemble for trying out all his new works. All over the world the powerful, energetic playing of the band – developed under his leadership over a period of three decades – brings his works to sparkling life and has long since become a characteristic feature of his music. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Running Time: 86 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Michael Nyman & Motion TrioAcoustic Accordions
with Michael Nyman (piano) & Nigel Barr (trombone and euphonium) The Motion Trio 9 of Michael Nyman’s greatest hits arranged/performed by The Motion Trio. Bonus Track - ‘Silence’ written and performed by The Motion Trio The Motion Trio are an accordion trio. They were honored with the ‘Gus Viseur’ award at the Musical Discovery of the Year awards in 2005 in France - a top honour in the accordion world. They are the grand prix laureates of the 4th Edition of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition. The Motion Trio have participated in a great number of prestigous festivals events inlcuding the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Alternativa Festival, Moscow, Migration Music Festival Taipei, Fest Der Kontinente Berlin, Gaudeamus Festival, Amsterdam, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Festival d'Ile de France, Paris and many others. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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The album features two main bodies of Mozart-derived works, the first is the soundtrack for Peter Greenaway’s Drowning by Numbers, and is an 'exploration' of the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic qualities that Nyman found so mysteriously attractive in the slow movement of the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola [which Greenaway had specified should be the source for the whole soundtrack!]. The second score draws from Letters, Riddles and Writs, a BBC2-commissioned homage to Mozart written in 1991. The film portrays Mozart (played by Ute Lemper) on his deathbed conducting an imaginary performance of The Magic Flute as he muses on his life’s predicaments. Thoughts of his troubled relationship with his father are illustrated in a remake of 'O Isis and Osiris, his dire financial situation is played out in 'Profit and Loss and the tragedy of dying while still at the height of his creativity is echoed in 'I am an Unusual Thing'. His (imaginary) annoyance of realising that Michael Nyman has plagiarised his 'Haydn' quartets also makes up a large part of the score! “Mozart 252 is for people like me who find Nyman's In re Don Giovanni so catchy they have to play it again straight away, since the CD includes three versions of it.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 “Nyman is usually at his best feeding off the classical masters. Witness most of this new survey of pieces derived from Mozart phrases and chords. The Drowning by Numbers soundtrack is pleasurably revisited, along with that early calling card In Re Don Giovanni. Solo voices fight to get heard in songs from the TV film Letters, Riddles and Writs: blame the recording and the thick instrumentation. But that’s the only blight on this engaging CD” The Times, 16th May 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| | Creole Jazz | Arnold: | Scottish Dance | Barber, S: | Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 | Debussy: | Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) | Findon: | Serpent Dance | Gabrieli, G: | Sonata Pian e Forte | Gershwin: | Prelude No. 2 | Herrmann, B: | Psycho | Monti, V: | Csárdás | Morley, A: | Valse Bleue | Nevin, E W: | Narcissus, Op. 13 No. 4 | Nyman: | In Re Don Giovanni | Rachmaninov: | Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 | Rahman: | I Could Live Here | trad.: | Merry Blacksmith & Sleepy Maggie | Vivaldi: | Bassoon Concerto in G minor | Williams, John: | Schindler's List - theme |
Andy Findon (flutes, clarinets, saxophones, recorders, chinese flutes, indian flutes, irish whistles, folk flutes, ocarinas, pan pipes) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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